On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:48:41AM -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
> Dan Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Dominik Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:48:17PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > > > On 21 Jul 2001 19:26:09 +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > The recent fixes in the man page for Solaris etc. (\f...) broke
> > > > > the bold typeface of the reformatted sections.  For example: 
> > > > > 
> > > > >   .TP
> > > > >   .BI "Menu " menu-name " [ " position " ] [ " double-click-action " 
> > > > > ]"
> > > > > 
> > > > > was changed to
> > > > > 
> > > > >   .IP "Menu \fImenu-name\fP [ \fIposition\fP ] [ 
> > > > > \fIdouble-click-action
> 
> I meant to mark them as bold, oh, I see, the first 2 that I did
> I copied verbatim from the 2.2.x version of the manual.
> 
> ...
> 
> > I tried using multiple .BI commands but the text ran into the paragraph.
> > 
> > I wonder if the .BI command used in Linux would work with the vendors
> > nroff/troff, perhaps all we need to do is copy the .BI macro into the
> > file(s) we need it in.
> > 
> > Maybe I'll have some time to check later...
> 
> It looks to me like the Linux .BI command is dependent on groff's
> ".while" command which doesn't appear to available on Solaris.

And what about macros like .BR or .IR?  Do they suffer from the
same problem?

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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